Crystal River current. [volume] (Crystal, Colo.) 1886-18??, 1887-05-07
TELEGRAPH BREVITLES.

Assembly.
An extra session of the Missouri
Legislature is to be called to enact railroad
legislation.
The birthday of Emperor William
was celebrated in Berlin on the 22nd, with
great enthusiasm.
Twelve men persisted by the burning
of boarding house in a Michigan mining
town last week.
The Pope has named Archbishop
Corrigan of New York as PreIate Assistant
to the Pontifcal throne.
A fire at Chautauqua, New York, de-
stroyed fifty or sixty summer cottages, in
volving loss of nearly 100000.
The gorge in the Missouri river at
Bismarck defies dynamite. and all attempts
to break it have been abandoned.
Mr.. Oscar C. Strauss, of New York,
an Israelite. has been appointed United
States Minister to Constantinople.
Germany has refused to participate
either in the industrial or art section of the
Paris International Exhibition of 1889.
A dispatch from Winnipeg says the
cattle losses on the ranges west of there
will be 80 per cent OF the entire number.
Willie Sells, who was tried for the
murder Of the remainder of the family
near Erie, Kansas, has confessed to the
deed.
Carter Harrison has reconsidered his
determination and he will make the race for
Mayor of Chicago at the head Of the Demo-
| cratic ticket.
The City Council of Albuquerque has
voted money to aid in defraying the ex-
penses of railroad survey from Albuquer-
que to Durango.
Bids for steel for guns and armor
have been oponed by the Secretary of the
Navy. He expresses himself as greatly
pleased with the result.
| The sale of the art collection of the
late A. T.Stewart took place in Chickerin's
Hall, New York, on the 23d. The prices + e.
allied were eood.7
Mr.. Chamberlain, the present owner
of the Queens Cup, is anxious for a race
between his yacht Arrow and the American
| sloop Mayflower
Revolutionary rumors are current
| in Panama. and consequently one dealer in
| firearms turned over his stock to the Gov
eminent for safe-keeping.
Senator Sherman spoke at Nashville
to large audience and gave the Tennessee
ans statement of the issues between the
Democrats and Republicans.
The Acting Secretary of the Treas
ure has issued the 14sth call for the redemp-
ton of bonds. The call is for $1,000, 600 of
3 per cents of the loan OF 1882.
The wheat outlook in Missouri is
more favorable than at any time during the
proceeding years, and the general situation
in Kansas is slightly improved.
The steamer Scotia, with over 1000
Italian emigrants on board. is ashore near
Blue Point Station, and the Long Island
shore. The Iife-savers are there.
The trial of John Arensdorf for the
murder of Rev. GeorgeC. Haddock at Sioux
City has commenced. A great deal of in
terest is being taken in the trial.
An attempt was made at Chambers
burg, Penn, to lynch Frank Guyer, who had
deserted his wife for another woman, but
the man escaped from the lynchers.
Rev. Matthew C. Julien of the Trim
itarian Church of New Bedford, Massachu-
sets, is spoken of as the possible successor
to Mr.. Beecher at Plymouth Church.
Jacob Broad, of Newark, O., quar-
relied with his wife and she threw pan of
boiling water in his face. He died from the
scalding and she is a raving maniac.
An estimate has been made of the
dealer, and it is thought that the creditors
may recover 75per cent. on their claims.
The Philadelphia police raided the
Chinese dens at Ninth and Race streets in
that city and captured 23s Celestials with
their gambling and opinm-smoking outfits.
The men in New Orleans who handle
cotton have formed rival unions, and they
refuse to handle each others work. The
cotton trade threatens to suffer in conse-
quence.
An attempt was made ut Springfield,
Illinois, to assassinate George s. Bailey,
Labor member of the Legislature. The bull
let lodged in a memorandum-bOok in his
pocket.
The Navy Department has advices
from Port Of Spain, Trinidad, that four Of
ficers of the training-ship Saratoga were
drowned by the capsizing Of boat on
March 2.
Carter H. Harrison was nominated
for Mayor of Chicago by the Democrats on
the sd. Mr.. Harrison appeared before the
convention and positively declined the
nomination.
james Hogan, the driver of an ice
wagon in New York, nearly killed his wife
and then killed himself. The had lost their
children by death, and both were regarded
al I'M